Uncommon Fare is building its inventory to include healthful alternatives for personal-care items, grocery staples, including organic and gluten-free varieties, and more. Adding to its more-than-meets-the-eye appeal, Uncommon Fare offers massages and facials by masseuse Janese Jaceldo and aesthetician Amy Rodriguez, in MBS Spa above the shop.

Lange talked about what the store is carrying and services they hope to add in the next few months.

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I do catering. I started doing personal assistant work and catering with Tim for her company and that's how we met. When they started talking about the store concept, I jumped in. I'm in charge of all the ordering, the day-to-day stuff.

How's it going so far?

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Good. The response has been really great. The neighborhood is very excited about us from what we can tell, and the residents here are our main clients. We'd really love to build our breakfast and lunch business and bring in the neighborhood clientele, as well as the offices around here. We're trying to come off small and slow and we'll be having a grand opening in January.

How long has this been in the works?

I'd say almost a year. We just sat down and brainstormed. We went through and decided. Most of this is stuff we use in our homes. Products we know and trust. I grew up in Alamo Heights, between Central Market and Whole Foods. That's where I shopped, and it's what we're familiar with. There are a couple of things that we filled in. We're trying some new stuff out, and if we like it, we'll keep it or replace it with other products. It's been fun. The goal is that these are all staples, as well as healthy organic choices.

What other local products are you bringing in?

The chicken and eggs are from Peeler Farms. Our produce comes from My Father's Farm in Seguin, and we're supplementing some organic produce. We always want to support local first, that's our main goal. Bakery Lorraine brought some stuff in last weekend that did really well. They brought in muffins, croissants. We'll be getting baked goods daily from them. We'll be doing a lot of our sandwiches on their bread or our own homemade bread that Tim calls “health nut” bread. We'll be bringing our coffee in soon from Brown Coffee. Besides the baked goods, we'll also be doing a few breakfast selections, and for lunch, we'll have salads and veggie trays with homemade hummus that we'll make in-house. Whatever we carry will be fresh and seasonal.

What has the neighborhood asked for so far?

I had picked out almond milk and coconut milk, and we had a lot of requests for rice milk. Produce — we haven't really had people requesting stuff. Someone asked for Dr Pepper. We also have personal-care items, cleaning supplies, laundry supplies. We're really trying to have the necessities so that anyone who lives in the neighborhood or the building can run down and grab something.

We're trying to cover all our bases, for the most part, as long as we can get it. It's still a process. We're still scouting out distributors and vendors to make sure we can fill in the blanks. Our biggest thing right now is finding someone to supply Advil and Tylenol. That's what the building has been asking for the most. (She laughs.)

What have been some of the biggest sellers so far?

That would be our Kombucha and Kevita, our fermented live, raw drinks. Then, the sea salt caramel gelato. We sold out really fast, and while we were waiting for the shipment to come in, residents were like, “Where's the gelato?”'